When America First Met China An Exotic History of Tea Drugs and Money in the Age of Sail

Name: When America First Met China An Exotic History of Tea Drugs and Money in the Age of Sail
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ISBN: 9780871404336

ISBN-10: 0871404338

ISBN-13: 9780871404336

Edition: 2012

Authors: Eric Jay Dolin

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Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and bêche-de-mer—a rare sea cucumber delicacy—might have catalyzed America’s emerging economy, but it also sparked an ecological and human rights catastrophe of such epic proportions that the reverberations can still be felt today.…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 9/10/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.60" wide x 9.60" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Eric Jay Dolin is the author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling In America, which was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe, and also won the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History; andnbsp;Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. He is also the author of When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail. A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in environmental policy, he lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.